And this really derives from the outrage of some of Disney’s employees. So any objections raised by the company represent a business being responsive to its workers. Free market pressure, and all…That’s not a bad thing.
No no, it’s only “free market pressure” when it serves conservative interests. This is cancel culture and it’s BAD. Because socialism.
Nah, they have the same philosophy about both: rights are great when they use them, and should be restricted for anyone else. Dave Chappelle had it right - we’ll get gun control legislation in the US when people of color start buying and registering guns in large numbers. Suddenly, an armed populace will be a dangerous idea.
After all, look at all the restrictions on voting they’re coming up with.
As an example, look to California’s reaction to the Black Panthers in the 1960s. Remember, in addition to doing community betterment programs like school lunches, their modus operandi was to stand by and watch the police conduct their business - while armed with rifles.
When they eventually showed up on the steps of the Capitol to read a copy of the Declaration of Independence, legally carrying a rifle in California became a problem.
Of all the governmental gifts to private corporations Florida’s creating The Reedy Creek Improvement District is far and away the most egregious in modern history, rivaled only by the federal government giving away ten of millions of acres of public land to the railroads in the 19th century. The railroads all went bankrupt after a while, but Disney keeps making billions of dollars, year after year, on it true “magic kingdom” in Orlando. The legislation never should have been written and should have been snatched away the next time a moderately sane government controlled Florida. I can’t keep myself from laughing as I type that.
Disney made those billions in part by catering to the same public that the Florida government listens to, which necessitated discrimination against a large and varied set of minority populations. Both the culture and governmental regulations had to change for these minorities to be welcomed.
It’s an irony so gigantic and so unpredictable that a political satirist could never make it believable that Disney is now being attacked by an actual governmental body in the United States because it refuses to discriminate against a particular minority today - one it had no qualms about squashing back in the past.
No such thing as WOKE Disney exists. Dollar Signs Disney, sure, first, last, and always. DeSantis excelled at picking foes that couldn’t fight back, but Disney won’t let a penny go unclutched.
No law or principle is involved. The issue is public theater and corporate revenue. A pox on both their houses.
Isn’t it also some kind of hotbed of promiscuous geezer sex? I want to say I read an article about that a while back.
CD5 reliably elects Black people because it is drawn in crazy shapes specifically for that purpose. The VRA demands minority majority districts, and because the Blacks in Florida don’t all live in one area you get crazy shapes. You used to live in Florida, right? Remember this map?
That’s CD5, and the Tallahassee-Jacksonville proposal took effect in 2017 because Supreme Court of Florida looked at the racial demographics and said, quote, “that way the Black candidate of choice is likely to win”.
If it weren’t for DeSantis’s veto, Republicans would be good keeping Black districts Black. Because Blacks reliably vote Democratic, Republicans are happy to use race as a loophole to our state’s constitutional prohibition on political party gerrymandering.
Blacks as a percentage of the population in CD10 are going down from like a fraction of one percentage point so I don’t know how big of a deal that is, as opposed to CD5.
I wonder whether the Florida state courts will strike down the Governor’s map, which is certain to pass, or maybe even adopt the earlier map. There’s a lawsuit going on already.
~Max
Disney bought the land where Disney World resides. It wasn’t given to them. It was literally swampland that was cheap to buy because it was swampland.
You say that like it’s a bad thing?
Now that’s just silly on Cruz’s part. It was established, decades ago, that Goofy is Pluto’s gay lover.
I guess when they said republicans aren’t ‘hurting the right people’ they mean corporations that make childrens media.
I think you have the details mixed up. It was Minnie.
Judge to Mickey: You say you want a divorce because your wife is not in her right mind?
Mickey to Judge: Well, I didn’t say exactly that. I said I want a divorce because she’s fucking Goofy.
I didn’t mean to imply that Florida gave Disney land. The gift was power and control and freedom from regulation.
I only compared it to the railroads because I knew if I just said “greatest gift” someone would swoop in to nitpick.
Clearly, Goofy is just cucking Mickey left and right. 
As I understand it — and maybe I’m missing something important — most of the Reedy Creek District residents live in Celebration FL, and almost all 11,178 of them can’t vote for local officials because they don’t own the land their condo is on. See:
With all the injustices in this world, that one surely ranks low. But it doesn’t sound right.
Based on a bit of web search, I can’t figure out if there are local taxes.
I grew up in Florida, and after a stint in Colorado, I’m back.
I hate it here, but family (namely, my son, who lives with my soon to be ex-wife, but who I see regularly) was a strong motivator to return.
I’m in very red Pasco county now, and work at a law firm that covers the Tampa/gulf coast region where I’m surrounded by Trumpists and other Republicans.
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Incidentally, I believe that Disney originally envisioned Epcot to be an actual lived in city. So when he lobbied for this special district, I believe it was with the intent that he’d run a utopian town.
“I’ll tell you when you’re older.”
That’s my understanding too. He wanted to run an actual city.
And I work in the Villages, so let me just say, sometimes… 
~Max
Hardly. Just not where I’d think a prominent Republican governor might hang out.
Conservatism has never been about making the country better. It has always been about preserving the privileges of the status quo hierarchy. That is the only value that conservatism has ever had. If you look at every issue from that point of view, then conservatives no longer look hypocritical or self-contradictory. They are always protecting the one thing–the only thing–they care about.